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State of Logistics 2016: Pursue mutual benefit Railroad leaders stress importance of trade deals KCS and BNSF team up for cross-border intermodal service to begin in December AAR calls on STB to stop major rulemakings for the time being Final notes on 3PL Value Creation Summit More Logistics News Planning for Tomorrow’s Last Mile Trends in last mile delivery Thursday, December 1, 2016 | 2pm ET All Resources Class I railroads BNSF and Kansas City Southern (KCS) announced last week that they will be teaming up for a new joint intermodal service, effective December 1. The service will connect the Chicago and Dallas/Fort Worth markets, as well as other major markets on the BNSF network, with key consumer and industrial regions on the Kansas City Southern de Mexico network. BNSF and KCS said this service will run five days a week, with Northbound service operating from Toluca, San Luis Potosi or Monterrey, Mexico to Dallas/Fort Worth or Chicago. And Southbound service will originate from Chicago or Dallas/Fort Worth to Laredo, Texas or to Monterrey, San Luis Potosi, or Toluca, Mexico. The railroads explained that shippers can use this service to connect to the West Coast to and from Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and Stockton, California, and Seattle and Portland, Oregon in the Pacific Northwest, adding that shippers will also be able to connect to other locales on the BNSF 32,500-mile network from Dallas/Forth Worth or Chicago in addition to other railroads to reach markets in the Northeast and Canada. Trains heading both ways will interchange at Robstown, Texas. Some of the benefits of this new service cited by BNSF and KCS include: a secure and direct connection to some of the most important consumer and manufacturing regions on Mexico, especially for customers moving consumer goods such as appliances, foods, […]